A customer enters the Oyster Shack at Drakes Bay Oyster Co. on July 10, 2014 in Inverness, California. After a 19 month legal battle with the federal government, Drakes Bay Oyster Co. is beginning to wind down operations a week after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Drakes Bay Oyster owner Kevin Lunny. Lunny had asked the Supreme Court to review his case against the U.S. Park Service to renew the lease for his oyster farm that operates on Drakes Estero which is on federal land and Congress has designated as a marine wilderness. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled against an injunction sought by Lunny to stay in business following former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's decision to not issue a new operational permit and extend the lease of the land for the oyster company.

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A customer enters the Oyster Shack at Drakes Bay Oyster Co. on July...